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hammered governor romney on his shape shifting. >> a few nights ago, suddenly a guy pretending to be mitt romney stood on a stage next to me and said he's changing his plan. he's just going to pretend it doesn't exist. what $5 trillion tax cut? what was being presented wasn't leadership. that's salesmanship. >> when the storm clouds clear, which romney will voters remember? the bone dry severe conservative or the misty massachusetts moderate? the paradox of the mittens, a multi volume extravaganza continues. john heilemann, what do we make, what do you specifically make, of this politico inside dope that says ann and tagg romney have been instrumental in this recalibrated mitt romney? >> i never want to take exception that anybody mike allen and jim vandehei write but maybe there's a straining to find a more biz zanty explanation than is necessarily the case. to question that ann romney was unhawpe with what was happening to her husband as any reasonable wife would be, given the way he was being portrayed and allowing people to portray himself. there's, you know, losing campaign, whi
hammered governor romney on his shape shifting. >> a few nights ago, suddenly a guy pretending to be mitt romney stood on a stage next to me and said he's changing his plan. he's just going to pretend it doesn't exist. what $5 trillion tax cut? what was being presented wasn't leadership. that's salesmanship. >> when the storm clouds clear, which romney will voters remember? the bone dry severe conservative or the misty massachusetts moderate? the paradox of the mittens, a multi...
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they perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> that was president obama during a los angeles fund-raiser last night acknowledging that his debate performance didn't live up to hollywood standards. governor romney is trying to keep his debate act alive shedding his wooden image for a more human mitt. he told the emotional story of helping a young member of the mormon church who was dying of leukemia. >> through all this david had the kind of strength and courage and maturity you see in so many of our young people, so many of the people in this great nation of ours. i thought of the wonderful slogan later, clear eyes, full heart, can't lose. >> joining the panel now ar ari melver of the nation and nicholas cantasori of the new york times t. yes. >> that's who he is. >> let's talk about the strategy. the president, just forget about wednesday. think about friday. mitt romney forget about friday, remember wednesday. who is selling themselves better this week in your opinion? >> mitt romney is doing a gr
they perform flawlessly night after night. i can't always say the same. >> that was president obama during a los angeles fund-raiser last night acknowledging that his debate performance didn't live up to hollywood standards. governor romney is trying to keep his debate act alive shedding his wooden image for a more human mitt. he told the emotional story of helping a young member of the mormon church who was dying of leukemia. >> through all this david had the kind of strength and...
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governor romney had a good flight. i had a bad night. >> how bad? >> well, it's not the first time i've had a bad night, but i think what's important is that the fundamentals of what this race is about haven't changed. >> is it possible you handed him the election that night? >> no. >> you're going to win? >> yes. >> don't expect joe biden to make the same mistake. the campaign says the veep will come out forcefully against the romney/ryan record and address the quote dishonesties pedalled last week. offering advice for number two the president said -- >> tomorrow night? >> well, i -- you know, i think joe needs to be joe. >> for what it's worth, the president is probably hoping that joe isn't the same joe who occasionally suffers from bouts of acute honesty on a variety of topics like gay marriage. >> he got out a little bit over his skis, but out of generosity, spirit. >> joining us now from chicago, national press secretary for the obama campaign, ben "the thunder" labolt. >> new nickname every time. thanks for having me. >> thunder bolt or thund
governor romney had a good flight. i had a bad night. >> how bad? >> well, it's not the first time i've had a bad night, but i think what's important is that the fundamentals of what this race is about haven't changed. >> is it possible you handed him the election that night? >> no. >> you're going to win? >> yes. >> don't expect joe biden to make the same mistake. the campaign says the veep will come out forcefully against the romney/ryan record and...
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that was kind of isolated to one night and now he's back to not talking about his faith very much. i think that like i write, you know, he's going to be talking about god more. he already is. he talked about how he's not going to take god off our currency. >> which was -- as i think jen, the obama campaign person said there's as much likelihood of that as aliens attacking florida. but it is interesting as we talk about the country's first mormon candidate how little lifting of the veil there has been vis-a-vis the mormon faith and the prejudice that still exists as far as mormons in this country and the things that sort of whether it's the polygamist stigma that has sort of made it ways down to mexico and is now, you know, being battled out with mexican cartels as shane has detailed he could do -- it could be a great moment for mormons in america. interviewed by david gregory a couple weeks ago and asked and he immediately pivoted to judeo christian beliefs. >> first off, seems like this is part and parcel with the way romney approaches everything, which is, not to talk about it. t
that was kind of isolated to one night and now he's back to not talking about his faith very much. i think that like i write, you know, he's going to be talking about god more. he already is. he talked about how he's not going to take god off our currency. >> which was -- as i think jen, the obama campaign person said there's as much likelihood of that as aliens attacking florida. but it is interesting as we talk about the country's first mormon candidate how little lifting of the veil...
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we have an excellent montage to show how not off the cuff romney was last night. >> america the beautiful, o beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. corn counts, right? for amber waves of grain, if corn counts, if corn counts, does corn qualify as an amber wave of grain? >> i'm sorry, this is a politician stump speech. they have to make thousands. >> it wasn't the time to deliver the stump speech. go back four years -- >> i agree. >> comparisons with obama. you know, i covered him for about a year before we got to the iowa caucus. those big speeches that's when people say who is this guy, rehearsing a stump speech and doing it badly is no way to introduce yourself to a whole new bunch of voters who are tuning. in -- -- why they wanted to quote verses written by someone else, i don't understand what he was trying to express there. for someone who has said economy, economy, economy, i'm the guy who can fix the economy, to go in on a -- run on sanctions, never mind there have been sanctions against iran, but -- >> you know, speaking about the economy, i think the real winner
we have an excellent montage to show how not off the cuff romney was last night. >> america the beautiful, o beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. corn counts, right? for amber waves of grain, if corn counts, if corn counts, does corn qualify as an amber wave of grain? >> i'm sorry, this is a politician stump speech. they have to make thousands. >> it wasn't the time to deliver the stump speech. go back four years -- >> i agree. >> comparisons...
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say the discussion about foreign policy that's heated up considerably in the last couple weeks, and romney broadening his campaign message, talking about something other than the economy. in terms of tomorrow night's debate, what do you think is the net effect of bringing in issues that haven't been on the table like immigration, social concerns like gay marriage or women's reproductive rights? >> i think that you're probably going to see a similar tone, perhaps not a change in substance, but a similar tone from mitt romney to what i saw at the last debate, which was much more about bipartisanship, much more about his massachusetts tenure. on immigration, he has got a problem in the sense that he -- i mean, he took a stand right before the denver debate, finally answering the question about the temporary halting of deport -- right, of deportations for some immigrants who are here illegally. and that, i think, helped resolve an issue that was going to come up. i expect there will be more that comes up on it. in terms of the president, i think the feeling is those issues are in his favor. we
say the discussion about foreign policy that's heated up considerably in the last couple weeks, and romney broadening his campaign message, talking about something other than the economy. in terms of tomorrow night's debate, what do you think is the net effect of bringing in issues that haven't been on the table like immigration, social concerns like gay marriage or women's reproductive rights? >> i think that you're probably going to see a similar tone, perhaps not a change in substance,...
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, humanize him and do a number of other things was his wife ann romney. we were talking about this during the break. on jay leno last night asked about comments she made regarding the press and asking them to stop it. let's he what she had say ike seeing you get mad. did you get feedback? did you have focus people go, that's wrong? >> no. i stepped out of the interview like oh, dear, did i say it a little strong? no. everyo i've seen is like giving me high ve wha do you make of ann romney as a surrogate at this point in terms of burnishing her husband's brand? >> we hear early on as you said the mitt stabilizer, humanizing him, but i think maybe mitt was rit wn h ,t t fund-raiser that we're using ann sparingly so people don't get tired of her. because i think -- i'm not sure how well she's wearing, you know, anger, be it's very understandable, any political spouse has good reason to feel angry beust'sard t h ose ndac on someone you love. definitely. and yet, it's not that appealing. it isn't just ann romney. i mean when bill clinton got angry on hillary's
, humanize him and do a number of other things was his wife ann romney. we were talking about this during the break. on jay leno last night asked about comments she made regarding the press and asking them to stop it. let's he what she had say ike seeing you get mad. did you get feedback? did you have focus people go, that's wrong? >> no. i stepped out of the interview like oh, dear, did i say it a little strong? no. everyo i've seen is like giving me high ve wha do you make of ann romney...
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george will writes romney is behind so on wednesday night it might be risky for romney not to take risks. which is a lot of risk in one sentence. do you think romg will go out there? i mean given his behavior thus far? >> historically the defirst debate is the first time a challenger has a chance to stance on stage on a level playing for field for a couple hours with the incumbent president and it's been the challenger's best debate. so just by showing up, you would think that romney's a slight favorite right now. we have seen obama recently in a higher position than he's been in all year, maybe higher than you would expect based on where the economy is. so i do think romney should have a tail wind at the same time the stuff we're mentioning where he also has tried to avoid articulating where his positions are on a lot of issues, a lot that is common sense but if you take positions further away from the center that damages you and he's not done a lot of running to the center at all in this campaign. that's unusual and he'll be proebds for more detail during the debate. >> the american pu
george will writes romney is behind so on wednesday night it might be risky for romney not to take risks. which is a lot of risk in one sentence. do you think romg will go out there? i mean given his behavior thus far? >> historically the defirst debate is the first time a challenger has a chance to stance on stage on a level playing for field for a couple hours with the incumbent president and it's been the challenger's best debate. so just by showing up, you would think that romney's a...
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the reverse is true for mitt romney where you are walking a line of not sounding like you're cheering for bad news. so i think that you're going to see both sides of this equation very much on display tomorrow night at hofstra. it is going to be whoever can sort of connect the most with the people who are -- the feel-your-pain moment is going to be very important tomorrow night. >> and i feel like the themes of disappointment and the sense that the american dream has not only been deferred but is, like, no longer accessible to a huge part of the population. >> you know, there's sort of this extraordinary shift that's taken place within the presentation of obama as a character between 2008 and now where in 2008 there was all this talk of hope and the constituencies that he appealed to, people who were hopeful about the world, young people obviously but growing economies in places like north carolina and colorado. now you have this strain that's always been there with obama with this discussion about his grandparents and, you know, the aircraft assembly line and all of that, that's sort
the reverse is true for mitt romney where you are walking a line of not sounding like you're cheering for bad news. so i think that you're going to see both sides of this equation very much on display tomorrow night at hofstra. it is going to be whoever can sort of connect the most with the people who are -- the feel-your-pain moment is going to be very important tomorrow night. >> and i feel like the themes of disappointment and the sense that the american dream has not only been...
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i think the sense that i got at mitt romney's event last night talking to some of his advisers and some of his aides was a little bit of unease, and i'm also hearing that there's a lot of e-mail going out and state republican officials, folks like sual, a former state party chair, really appreciapressurin state operatives saying let's get out the vote and make sure it's maximized. there's hints of anxiety on the romney side of how it will turn out. >> john, in terms of voters, there's been so much back and forth, you said that santorum may have the big momentum. he has spent a lot of time with the social issues. on the ground in michigan, how much were people paying attention to the snobbery and wanting to send your kids to four-year colleges and so forth. >> there's maybe a couple of levels of folks that pay attention to that. the core activist base of the party, you know, goes online and reads through and parses and understanding, you know, basically the message that santorum is trying delivery to them, and a lot of them agree with it. the people it's a problem for are those that are
i think the sense that i got at mitt romney's event last night talking to some of his advisers and some of his aides was a little bit of unease, and i'm also hearing that there's a lot of e-mail going out and state republican officials, folks like sual, a former state party chair, really appreciapressurin state operatives saying let's get out the vote and make sure it's maximized. there's hints of anxiety on the romney side of how it will turn out. >> john, in terms of voters, there's...
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romney was supposed to end his campaign last night with a rally in new hampshire, but perhaps in a bid to turn back the clock the campaign scheduled an event in ohio that is about to get under way and another to come this afternoon in pennsylvania. romney is trying to make sure that this is not his last campaign, that politically he has a tomorrow. >> tomorrow. >> tomorrow. >> tomorrow we begin a new tomorrow. >> for the president, win or lose, this is his last campaign. >> this is a pretty emotional time for us because this is the final event of my husband's final campaign. >> in iowa last night, the place where it all began, the first couple held an extended embrace at the end of a day that saw president obama on the stump with jay-z and bruce springsteen, he seemed at peace, closing one chapter of his political life. >> it all comes down to you. it's out of my hands now. it's in yours. >> now, of course, it is just down to the ballots. chris, let's talk about the mood. i mean we are going to prognosticate, we have been prognosticating about how tight this thing is. >> never made a p
romney was supposed to end his campaign last night with a rally in new hampshire, but perhaps in a bid to turn back the clock the campaign scheduled an event in ohio that is about to get under way and another to come this afternoon in pennsylvania. romney is trying to make sure that this is not his last campaign, that politically he has a tomorrow. >> tomorrow. >> tomorrow. >> tomorrow we begin a new tomorrow. >> for the president, win or lose, this is his last campaign....
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mitt romney's mom, something about mitt romney's dad? >> you know, we've only owned our home for the last four years. he was a refugee from mexico. he was on relief, welfare relief for the first years of his life. but this great country gave him opportunities. >> oh, my god. george romney was on welfare, so according to mitt romney's own logic, mitt romney could not win the vote of his dad. >> we will do the arithmetic on the 47% when ezra klein joins the panel ahead on "now." [ female announcer ] born from the naturally sweet monk fruit, something this delicious could only come from nature. now from the maker of splenda sweeteners, discover nectresse. the only 100% natural, no-calorie sweetener made from the goodness of fruit. the rich, sweet taste of sugar. nothing artificial. ♪ it's all that sweet ever needs to be. new nectresse. sweetness naturally. seven years after hurricane katrina the rebuilding effort continues in new orleans. >> the percentage of residential properties in the lower ninth ward rendered uninhabitable was 900. >
mitt romney's mom, something about mitt romney's dad? >> you know, we've only owned our home for the last four years. he was a refugee from mexico. he was on relief, welfare relief for the first years of his life. but this great country gave him opportunities. >> oh, my god. george romney was on welfare, so according to mitt romney's own logic, mitt romney could not win the vote of his dad. >> we will do the arithmetic on the 47% when ezra klein joins the panel ahead on...
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we talked about the benghazi stuff last night, mitt romney coming out and saying president is doubling down on deceit or some version thereof. your assessment. >> we should be clear about what is contested and what is agreed to and what are the various theories of what's wrong. what the problem is, right? what everyone agrees the first story that the american people were told by the administration about what happened in benghazi was wrong. it was not a riot set off by a youtube video that then overran a consulate. >> which they admit. >> everyone agrees. now the question is, did they just get bad intelligence, right? which is what joe biden said last night. this is what intelligence agencies told us. it turned out later it was a preplanned attack. were they essentially manipulating the story because it looked better for them if there was this who could have predicted riot as opposed to an al qaeda cell or al qaeda allied cell in libya pulled off an attack. that's one issue, right? what was channeled up through the chain of command in terms of intelligence reporting that administration
we talked about the benghazi stuff last night, mitt romney coming out and saying president is doubling down on deceit or some version thereof. your assessment. >> we should be clear about what is contested and what is agreed to and what are the various theories of what's wrong. what the problem is, right? what everyone agrees the first story that the american people were told by the administration about what happened in benghazi was wrong. it was not a riot set off by a youtube video that...
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two nights after this -- >> not true, governor romney. >> how much did you cut them? >> there were a bunch of oil company -- >> i had a question and the question was how much you'll get them by. you'll get your chance in a moment and i'm still speaking. >> there was this. >> a campaign can require a lot of wardrobe changes. blue jeans perhaps in the morning, suits for a lunch fund-raiser, sport coat for dinner, but it's nice to finally relax and to wear what ann and i wear around the house. >> used to love walking through central park, loved to go to old yankee stadium, the house that ruth built, although he really did not build that. i hope everybody's -- aware of that. governor romney and president obama shared the stage in new york city. the light hearted night included plenty of self-deprecation. >> people seem to be very curious as to how we prepare for the debates. let me tell you what i do, first refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the debate. second, find the biggest available straw man and then just mercily attack it. big bird didn't even see it coming.
two nights after this -- >> not true, governor romney. >> how much did you cut them? >> there were a bunch of oil company -- >> i had a question and the question was how much you'll get them by. you'll get your chance in a moment and i'm still speaking. >> there was this. >> a campaign can require a lot of wardrobe changes. blue jeans perhaps in the morning, suits for a lunch fund-raiser, sport coat for dinner, but it's nice to finally relax and to wear what...
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meanwhile the battle for the coal mining vote is on, here is what an romney and rick santorum said last night. >> my grandfather was a coal minor and at age six he started working in the coal mines. >> it's those roots, growing up the grandson of a coal minor and growing up in a steel town in butler, pennsylvania that have forged me. >> the coal minor vote. obviously a bid for authenticity. let's talk about about how romney is trying to win over michigan voters. >> he has a big issue in trying to thread the needle in terms of not being for the auto bailouts but saying he would not have let the industry go under. he said that he would have made sure that the government financing was there to take them through a bankruptcy. i can understand that but explaining that to an audience is difficult. he is in a situation where a lot of people think he would let this industry die. >> supporting tar and not the auto bailouts. it's again, that awkward, he can have -- wanting to have it both ways. >> the point the romney campaign is trying make which is utleys y ultimately the system by which it has
meanwhile the battle for the coal mining vote is on, here is what an romney and rick santorum said last night. >> my grandfather was a coal minor and at age six he started working in the coal mines. >> it's those roots, growing up the grandson of a coal minor and growing up in a steel town in butler, pennsylvania that have forged me. >> the coal minor vote. obviously a bid for authenticity. let's talk about about how romney is trying to win over michigan voters. >> he...
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i think governor romney's response last night and more pointed his response today this is his lehman moment in a lot of ways. this crisis may not translate to voters in the way the economic crisis did, because it's a foreign policy thing, as a test to think on your feet, be serious, sober, respectful to frame if you're going to have disagreements with the president to frame them in the right way, not seem crass, exploitive he's failed those tests and why you're seeing stores on the web, republican foreign policy people across the board saying this is a really dramatic moment, i don't know if it's the moment that, quote, mitt romney lost the election but a pretty clear window into areas of his leadership ability, character, temperament that i think a lot of voters should and maybe will find really troubling and really disturbing. >> in fact, there have been senior republican advisers who have said on the record -- well off the record but attributable to buzz feed, for example, they were trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and it's completely blown up
i think governor romney's response last night and more pointed his response today this is his lehman moment in a lot of ways. this crisis may not translate to voters in the way the economic crisis did, because it's a foreign policy thing, as a test to think on your feet, be serious, sober, respectful to frame if you're going to have disagreements with the president to frame them in the right way, not seem crass, exploitive he's failed those tests and why you're seeing stores on the web,...
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after months of remaining silent on possible running mates, last night, team romney released this e-mail, saying sometime between now and the republican convention, mitt will be announcing his choice for vp. so instead of directly addressing the burning questions about the governor's time at bain, advisors are trumpeting an event that will take place in the next 47 days. governor rendell, i ask you first, how bad is this for mitt romney right now? can he put the genie back in the bottle? >> yeah, he can. this is the summertime. i'd say out of 300 million americans, about six or seven million are paying attention. anything that happens during the summer, you can recover from. but again, this whole controversy goes to whether mitt romney flip-flops, whether he's trustworthy, whether he tells the truth. it all goes to the character issue. the democrats and some of the media are building up a very good case against him. look, ann romney said in 2000 that mitt splits his time between the olympics and bain. when mitt himself left in 1999, he said i'm going to be part-time and i'm going to have
after months of remaining silent on possible running mates, last night, team romney released this e-mail, saying sometime between now and the republican convention, mitt will be announcing his choice for vp. so instead of directly addressing the burning questions about the governor's time at bain, advisors are trumpeting an event that will take place in the next 47 days. governor rendell, i ask you first, how bad is this for mitt romney right now? can he put the genie back in the bottle?...
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romney was asked about it last night. >> my position has been clear throughout this campaign. i'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother. but recognize this is the decision that will be made by the supreme court. >> it is unclear if that distinction will be mentioned at the convention and given romney's evolution on reproductive rights, it's unlikely he will take a stand now. when romney challenged ted kennedy's massachusetts senate seat, he made it clear he had been a supporter of a woman's right to choose for over two decades. >> i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. i have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a u.s. senate candidate. i believe that since roe v wade has been the law for 20 years, we should sustain and support it and i sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice. >> my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that ma
romney was asked about it last night. >> my position has been clear throughout this campaign. i'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother. but recognize this is the decision that will be made by the supreme court. >> it is unclear if that distinction will be mentioned at the convention and given romney's evolution on reproductive rights, it's unlikely he will take a stand now. when romney challenged ted kennedy's...
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last night, paul said this to more than 7,000 supporters at his own rally in tampa. >> when you think if there's a party that says we have an open tent, we want new people to come in, we want to appeal to the young people, don't you think they would be begging and pleading that they come into the big tent? well, no. we'll get into the tent, believe me, because we will become the tent. >> while former mississippi governor haley barbour insists the party is unified, he doesn't give much credit to governor romney. >> he's the least conservative of the serious candidates for the nomination of the conservative party of the united states. where barack obama is the great uniter of republicans. >> joining us now from tampa is the washington bureau chief of mother jones, msnbc political analyst, david corn. david, let's talk about tampa and what's going on down there. that comment from haley barbour i thought was kind of stinging this morning on the day the convention begins. charlie crist is now speaking at the dnc. we just got a little bit of information about who used to work for charlie cr
last night, paul said this to more than 7,000 supporters at his own rally in tampa. >> when you think if there's a party that says we have an open tent, we want new people to come in, we want to appeal to the young people, don't you think they would be begging and pleading that they come into the big tent? well, no. we'll get into the tent, believe me, because we will become the tent. >> while former mississippi governor haley barbour insists the party is unified, he doesn't give...
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romney also held a fund-raiser in cincinnati last night and will return to the state for an event with speaker john boehner on sunday. today he has a campaign bus parked near the president's event. in their dueling speeches the candidates are expected to outline stark contrasts. that's after a week of simply calling the other guy as a guy who is out of touch. >> the president is so out of touch with the needs of the american people. it's finally time to have a president who's in touch with what's happening in america. >> those of us who have spent time in the real world know that the problem is not the american people aren't productive enough. >> he's had a number of very revealing comments that show just how far out of touch he is. the president may be rewell meaning but he's out of touch. >> he's simply out of touch. we welcome a debate on who's out of touch. >> out of touch. now, here's what we know about the speech coming up. per the white house. the guidance that they've given nbc news. the speech that the president's making will be more perspective and prescriptive about where to
romney also held a fund-raiser in cincinnati last night and will return to the state for an event with speaker john boehner on sunday. today he has a campaign bus parked near the president's event. in their dueling speeches the candidates are expected to outline stark contrasts. that's after a week of simply calling the other guy as a guy who is out of touch. >> the president is so out of touch with the needs of the american people. it's finally time to have a president who's in touch...
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there are big dinners with governor romney and his wife both nights. it's really, it's summer camp basically for the sort of rain maker class of republican donors. >> summer camp for the rain maker class. nbc's garrett haich doing the heavy lifting in park city. thank you, as always. good luck to you. >> can we make one quick point about the fact that they're doing this bus tour and putting the obama camp on the defensive? just going to a state doesn't mean the other candidate is on the defensive. you can say that's the case, doesn't make it the case just because you go there. michigan is tightening up. wisconsin a little less low. just because you take a bus tour to the state doesn't mean you have the other candidate on the defensive. >> it does signal an interest in the state given the fact the party hasn't done very well in decades. fair point. thank you to you, ben white for joining us. >>> coming up, from middle class to homeless. as the net worth of the average american family plummets, time to take stock of the american dream. we'll talk hard ti
there are big dinners with governor romney and his wife both nights. it's really, it's summer camp basically for the sort of rain maker class of republican donors. >> summer camp for the rain maker class. nbc's garrett haich doing the heavy lifting in park city. thank you, as always. good luck to you. >> can we make one quick point about the fact that they're doing this bus tour and putting the obama camp on the defensive? just going to a state doesn't mean the other candidate is on...
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best tweet i saw on this last night, if this is who mitt romney wants in the united states senate you can only imagine who he wants in the united states supreme court. and what i -- you know, putting the polls aside this poll makes no sense and others have said that. i got back frnew hampshire and viinia, republican men and women are saying this is ridiculous. bottom line, why we should have a congress, 83% of which is men, making women's medical decisions. i think fueling the fire. >> it's amazing, also, that both with the two most incendiary comments about women's and bodies, you have aiken and mourdock tied to the romney-ryan ticket, now you have as you said one senate candidate that romney has sort of given his stamp of approval to having ads with saying this stuff about rape and god's intentions. when we talk about the issues, the president weighing in on leno about mourdock's comment but was brought up the question of the supreme court. i want to play those and talk about we're not talking about that more broadly in the campaign season. >> you've got a supreme court that, you kn
best tweet i saw on this last night, if this is who mitt romney wants in the united states senate you can only imagine who he wants in the united states supreme court. and what i -- you know, putting the polls aside this poll makes no sense and others have said that. i got back frnew hampshire and viinia, republican men and women are saying this is ridiculous. bottom line, why we should have a congress, 83% of which is men, making women's medical decisions. i think fueling the fire. >>...
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of sort of romney pal tomds trump agrees, republicans have a big latino problem. do they have solutions? we will talk immigration reform with jose diaz-balart next on "now." [ emily jo ] derrell comes into starbucks with his wife, danielle, almost every weekend. derrell hasn't been able to visit his mom back east in a long time. [ shirley ] things are sometimes a little tight around the house. i wasn't able to go to the wedding. [ emily jo ] since derrell couldn't get home, we decided to bring home to him and then just gave him a little bit of help finding his way. ♪ [ laughs ] [ applause ] i love you. i love you, too. >>> mitt romney cannot escape the 47%. in the clearest indication yet that there is poetic justice in the universe, 47% is the share of the electorate that romney captured on november 6th. that number might have been higher if romney had gotten more than 27% of the hispanic vote. his dismal showing among latinos has republicans scrambling to rebrand themselves. according to the radical birt r birtherist and fair weather romney pal donald trump --
of sort of romney pal tomds trump agrees, republicans have a big latino problem. do they have solutions? we will talk immigration reform with jose diaz-balart next on "now." [ emily jo ] derrell comes into starbucks with his wife, danielle, almost every weekend. derrell hasn't been able to visit his mom back east in a long time. [ shirley ] things are sometimes a little tight around the house. i wasn't able to go to the wedding. [ emily jo ] since derrell couldn't get home, we decided...
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that is a priority for the romney campaign? >> i mean, i take your point totally about not rising to every bit of bait, but then the clock begins ticking and within a fairly short period of time, you have to do your grand vision about immigration and you can't just say oh, the president in 2010 should have been more of a leader to get the legislation that the republican caucus and the senate entirely killed passed. you really have to say what's what and how -- what you will do as president. >> i agree with that. i think the clock is ticking, particularly with these decisions coming down this week. certainly in light of the president's actions last week on immigration, i think it really puts the pressure on the front end of the strategy as opposed to how i think they like to see it play out leading up -- >> what kind of debates do you think are going on inside the republican party at this time? >> i think -- >> it is a divided party. >> you hit on a salient point. i think there's a legitimate bait that seems to be emerging and l
that is a priority for the romney campaign? >> i mean, i take your point totally about not rising to every bit of bait, but then the clock begins ticking and within a fairly short period of time, you have to do your grand vision about immigration and you can't just say oh, the president in 2010 should have been more of a leader to get the legislation that the republican caucus and the senate entirely killed passed. you really have to say what's what and how -- what you will do as...
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starting wednesday morning, tuesday night, there will be a lot of people that will say, romney will win by the end of february or middle of march. gingrich if he performs better in florida than he has going forward, he could head off the idea that romney is inevitable. >> newt is not going anywhere. he has southern states, including let see, arizona, could be more favor able. and georgia, his backyard, missouri, further on, march is a much better month for newt gingrich than it is february. but can i keep -- when you talk about the oh, no moment is it on the part of the far right, is it going to be as loudly heard from the rest of the republican base? which is to say can they maneuver their troops as efficiently as romney? >> money can't bipartisuy you lt endorsement endorsements, trusting those people that have been with you take this and day out is important and he has done that and that is what is going to help propel him more so hthan te money. >> i think what is more important is the anti-endorsement. bob dole came out and said, by the way, newt gingrich has crazy ideas, was diffic
starting wednesday morning, tuesday night, there will be a lot of people that will say, romney will win by the end of february or middle of march. gingrich if he performs better in florida than he has going forward, he could head off the idea that romney is inevitable. >> newt is not going anywhere. he has southern states, including let see, arizona, could be more favor able. and georgia, his backyard, missouri, further on, march is a much better month for newt gingrich than it is...
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and we ask you to stay with us all of the way to victory on tuesday night. all right? >> that was governor romney and an emotional ann romney speaking in colorado just now. i want to thank all of my panel here for their time and their expertise and thoughts. we have a wild three days ahead of us, guys. do we have time to talk to them? we do have time to talk to them. >> that's what we were chanting, three more days. >> i will say, it is exhausting running for president. >> it will be more like four or five days because midnight, 4:00 a.m., wednesday morning, we may very well not know. >> it's my election administration election. it is all going to come down to the arcane rules about challengers and provisional balloting and hanging chads and all that. we may not know on tuesday night. >> you really think that by 10:30, 11:00, we won't be like, okay, write my thing and go to bed by midnight? >> no, sir. you will be hitting refresh on the poll numbers. >> we will be following it closely, especially right here on msnbc, the place for polit s politics. thank you again. thi
and we ask you to stay with us all of the way to victory on tuesday night. all right? >> that was governor romney and an emotional ann romney speaking in colorado just now. i want to thank all of my panel here for their time and their expertise and thoughts. we have a wild three days ahead of us, guys. do we have time to talk to them? we do have time to talk to them. >> that's what we were chanting, three more days. >> i will say, it is exhausting running for president....
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we'll leave the zingers to the saturday night li"saturday nig t re-enactment and mitt romney. >> i have not said zinger and now i have. is that going to be enough for the american public? >> no. it's not actually. you know, all due respect to what's going on in chicago but the fundamental problem for the president is not just about the economy, it's the political system as it currently stands. and he has lots of specific plans, he had a jobs bill lined up, he's had these plans for some time. the question is, can anyone execute on anything within this environment? if the projections hold true and i'm sure ben in chicago and the president won't want to accept the projections but if they hold true, we'll end up with a congress that looks pretty much just as it does today, same president, dealing with the same dysfunctional congress, house controlled by the republicans and nothing will get done and in that environment, voters not uj reasonably will say well how does this get better? >> i think that politico yesterday, ben, outlined questions or statements that might haunt the president in t
we'll leave the zingers to the saturday night li"saturday nig t re-enactment and mitt romney. >> i have not said zinger and now i have. is that going to be enough for the american public? >> no. it's not actually. you know, all due respect to what's going on in chicago but the fundamental problem for the president is not just about the economy, it's the political system as it currently stands. and he has lots of specific plans, he had a jobs bill lined up, he's had these plans...
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mitt romney doesn't seem to identify this as a major problem. in some ways he's, i think, ignoring the dangerous dynamic. >> and in difficulty of being the commander in chief, president obama was on television last night, charged by jose diaz-balart is the new egyptian government friend or foe, he said they're not an enemying but they're not an ally either. some people will say he's being too cautious. at the end of the day we don't know. these are all new governments, new regime, different interests. we look at reaction of the egyptian government to the violence at u.s. embassy, they waited 24 hours before saying anything, they haven't exactly strong armed those protesters. some of them have -- there's an encouragement of having a second day of protest but without the violence. >> president obama's approach to foreign policy is very different than george w. bush's, and it has one overriding benefit, he hasn't put americans in harm's way in volatile situations. he hasn't put boots of the ground. that said it doesn't make the problems of what hap
mitt romney doesn't seem to identify this as a major problem. in some ways he's, i think, ignoring the dangerous dynamic. >> and in difficulty of being the commander in chief, president obama was on television last night, charged by jose diaz-balart is the new egyptian government friend or foe, he said they're not an enemying but they're not an ally either. some people will say he's being too cautious. at the end of the day we don't know. these are all new governments, new regime,...
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do you think tonight could be the night? >> you know, i think it will. even though to a lesser extent than i would like to see. immigration is one of these issues that neither the republican nor the democratic party has wanted to touch with a ten foot pole during this general campaign season. on the democratic side obviously because we don't want to remind the latino electorate of the broken promise of not going through comprehensive immigration reform and on the republican side mitt romney doesn't want to soften too much because that would alienate his base at the same time he doesn't want to chip away at that 20, 23% of latino support he has now. they're stuck in a tough place and both parties prefer to keep it on the back burner. >> josh, i want to ask you about this. they're huge economic implications and consequences of illegal immigration here in the u.s. in terms of the lack of discussion of it and being a centerpiece of this campaign season, i thought this poll that latino decisions did was interesting. because the -- getting hispanics out to the
do you think tonight could be the night? >> you know, i think it will. even though to a lesser extent than i would like to see. immigration is one of these issues that neither the republican nor the democratic party has wanted to touch with a ten foot pole during this general campaign season. on the democratic side obviously because we don't want to remind the latino electorate of the broken promise of not going through comprehensive immigration reform and on the republican side mitt...